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Saturday, November 17, 2012

So, I was checking out my Facebook account when I saw this on my feeds. An American guys duets with his Filipino girlfriend in singing the Tagalog song Hanggang Ngayon. Pretty impressive! The girl knows how to control her voice.

This couple is one to look out for!
I'm confident their video will trend! They really compliment each other's voice.

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has officially released the results of the October 2012 Licensure Examination for Criminologists or Criminology Board Exam late Friday.

A total of 7,171 out of 22,289 examinees passed the exam which was held in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo, Legazpi, Lucena, Pagadian, Tacloban, Tuguegarao and Zamboanga.

The results were released in twelve (12) working days from the last day of examination. For a list of the top 10 Criminology Board Passers, proceed here.

The 7,171 passers of the Criminology Board Exam for October 2012 are as follows:

Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will start on November 26, 2012 but not later than November 29, 2012. Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete nametag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete nametag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2012-2015. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

The date and venue for the oath-taking ceremony of the new successful examinees in the said examination will be announced soon.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

The immense power of social media has once and for all been demonstrated in a video exposing a rude LRT passenger humiliating a lady guard in front of the public. The woman, who will not be named in this blog, was caught in a video bashing and challenging the lady guard for still an unknown reason.

Widespread online criticism and mockery of the video have been prevalent among Facebook users in the Philippines. Some have even posted "Amalayer!"-containing messages on Facebook wall posts and Twitter feeds.

Meanwhile, a certain Czarina Cherizze Camacho Martinez released her own exaggerated, humor-filled version of the words uttered during the incident. The video, found below, is entitled "AMALAYER? Hi miss. I'm just returning the faverrr".

The Philippine Merchant Marine Academy (PMMA) has announced that 1,682 examinees out of 6,445 hopeful applicants passed the PMMA Entrance Exam (PMMAEE) held last September 29, 2012 in various testing centers nationwide.

Found below is the list of successful passers of the PMMA Entrance Exam:

Programs/shows of Philippine TV networks have been nominated in the upcoming 2012 Asian Television Awards (ATA) which will be held in Shangri-La Hotel in Singapore.

According to the list released by ATA, the Philippines took 13 nominations in various categories. ABS-CBN, GMA Network, TV 5, and Solar Entertainment Corporation (ETC), all had nominated programs/shows.

The complete list of PH nominees to the Asian Television Awards 2012 is found below.

ABS-CBN

BEST NEWS PROGRAMME“Bandila: Sendong’s Wrath”

BEST MUSIC PROGRAMME“ASAP Rocks (Gives Back)”

BEST TALK SHOW“The Bottomline with Boy Abunda”

BEST CURRENT AFFAIRS PRESENTERKorina Sanchez, “Rated K”

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLESharlene San Pedro“Remembering (Maalaala Mo Kaya) – T Shirt”

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLECoco MartinRemembering (Maalaala Mo Kaya) – Fist (Kamao)

GMA Network

BEST ADAPTATION OF AN EXISTING FORMATSurvivor Philippines Celebrity Double Showdown

PNP director general Nicanor Bartolome announced Tuesday that the Philippine National Police (PNP) has removed the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) from its list of threat groups for the 2013 elections,

Bartolome said authorities are now considering the MILF as among their allies after it signed a framework peace agreement with the PH government which will lead to the creation of a Bangsamoro entity in Mindanao.

Here's an article which destroyed my good morning vibes. This is the reason why I don't engage in networking because there will always come a time that things will not result as planned. I wish the victims could still recover the money they invested. The scammers are now on the run, yet I do hope they'd still be captured.

It aches to see fellow Filipinos deceiving others for money and all the other material things in this world. Well, I just hope we all learn from this.

A company managed by a former janitor and driver, and founded just early this year, has duped at least 15,000 people in Mindanao and the Visayas of P12 billion in a pyramid scam, an official of the National Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.

The NBI identified the company as Aman Futures Group Phils. Inc.

“Some of the victims committed suicide and others have become violent and sick when they learned their hard-earned money was gone,” said Virgilio Mendez, NBI deputy director for regional operations services, who was investigating the scam.

Among Aman Futures’ victims were local politicians, police and military personnel, government workers, market vendors, farmers, drivers, retired employees and overseas Filipino workers, according to Mendez.

He said the number of “complainants from across the country is piling up.”

He said the modus operandi of Aman Futures was to offer a return through a postdated check of the entire sum of the investment plus a profit up to 80 percent.

“Because of the huge interest, the number of investors of Aman Futures increased tremendously,” Mendez said.

Due to its success in Pagadian City, Aman Futures expanded its business to other cities and provinces like Lanao del Sur and Zamboanga in Mindanao and to Cebu City, he said.

Lands, houses mortgaged

With the huge increase in the number of investors, Aman Futures raised its required minimum investment from P1,000 to P200,000,” Mendez said.

“And in order to meet the new requirement, investors pooled their resources and others mortgaged lands and houses to comply with the requirement,” Mendez said.

He said investors started lining up at 2 in the morning although the office of Aman Futures Group had yet to open at 8 a.m.

No queues for VIPS

Every day, some 3,000 people were lining up at the office of Aman Futures in Pagadian City. “But VIPs were not required to fall in line and could deal directly with Luna,” Mendez said.

“The complainants said at the beginning that they thought they could realize their dreams to own cars and expensive things by making more investments in Aman Futures,” Mendez said.

He said the victims trusted Aman Futures largely because of endorsements from local officials.

“They trusted Aman Futures because even local government officials had openly endorsed it and admitted to have invested also,” Mendez explained.

Mendez said the NBI had received reports that government funds could have been used to invest in Aman Futures.

“We are currently investigating if government funds were used by local officials who invested in the scam,” Mendez said.

He declined to name the officials, but said charges would be filed against these officials should they be found to have used public funds.

Mendez said investors had started filing complaints in the NBI against Aman Futures in September for its failure to pay back their money.

Bouncing checks

At first, the victims could receive cash by just showing their official receipts. But later, investors were issued postdated checks with a 50-day maturity date in lieu of cash.

“But the checks issued by Aman Futures started to bounce and the account was eventually closed,” Mendez said.

Mendez said some victims had resorted to burning the houses of relatives of Aman Futures employees. “So far, two houses of Luna’s relatives were torched by victims who demanded they return their money,” he said.

Mendez said that complainants had been going to Keppel Building in the Cebu City Business Park office of Aman Futures, registered under another name, FRETZ and Sha Trading.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has released the dates and venues, including the last day of filing of application, for PRC-regulated licensure exams (board exams) in 2013. The list of PRC board exams and pertinent information is found below.

Monday, November 12, 2012

It's official! The Los Angeles Lakers have called in Mike D'Antoni as their new head coach in a four-year contract. This surprisingly came countering high expectations that Phil Jackson would be making a comeback.

His admittance came days after he was arrested for his drunken assault on a neighbor, Ray dela Rosa, on Friday. The actor spent the whole night in Quezon City Police Station 5 where he was allegedly mauled by prisoners.

Seems like Senator Sotto has attracted more attention from the international spotlight, though in an oddly negative way, after his involvement in "plagiarizing" works of Sarah Pope, Janice Formichella and Peter Engelman during his Turno en Contra speech against the Senate version of the reproductive health bill.

Kerry Kennedy, the founding President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights ,is the fourth US copyright holder who has expressed her dismay of Sotto's infringement on intellectual property rights.

In her letter, dated November 9, 2012, she urged that "he apologize for his unethical, unsanctioned theft of Robert Kennedy’s intellectual property and the intellectual property of all those whose work he has plagiarized."

"In addition, I am particularly offended to see a speech my father gave in support of global human rights distorted by Senator Sotto as an argument against the right to contraception. Expanding and protecting access to contraception is a global priority I have promoted for years, and limiting that freedom was in no way the topic of the 1966 Day of Affirmation speech," she added.

The full letter of response against Sotto's plagiarism issues is contained below.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

The 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup, which will run from November 24 to December 22, 2012, will be a tournament of eight (8) Southeast Asian football teams, among which is the Philippine Azkals. The other contending teams are Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Laos, the last two teams of which were qualified for the final round.

For the Group Stages (Pre-final Round), Group A will see a game among teams of Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and Philippines, whereas Group B will put on a match among teams of Singapore, Malaysia, Laos, and Indonesia.

AKTV, the sports broadcasting arm of TV5, will exclusively air live the Azkals games on the following dates:

NOVEMBER 24

Philippines vs. Thailand

9PM LIVE on AKTV

NOVEMBER 27

Philippines vs. Vietnam

6PM LIVE on AKTV

NOVEMBER 30

Philippines vs. Myanmar

9PM LIVE on AKTV

The AFF Suzuki Cup is a biennial football competition organised by the ASEAN Football Federation and contested by the national teams of Southeast Asia.